The Urantia Book -- Part IV. The Life And
Teachings Of JesusPAPER 193: Section 2.
The Phoenician Appearance

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The Master's eighteenth morontia appearance was at Tyre, on Tuesday, May 16,
at a little before nine o'clock in the evening. Again he appeared at the close
of a meeting of believers, as they were about to disperse, saying:

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"Peace be upon you. You rejoice to know that the Son of Man has risen from
the dead because you thereby know that you and your brethren shall also survive
mortal death. But such survival is dependent on your having been previously
born of the spirit of truth-seeking and God-finding. The bread of life and
the water thereof are given only to those who hunger for truth and thirst
for righteousness -- for God. The fact that the dead rise is not the gospel
of the kingdom. These great truths and these universe facts are all related
to this gospel in that they are a part of the result of believing the good
news and are embraced in the subsequent experience of those who, by faith,
become, in deed and in truth, the everlasting sons of the eternal God. My
Father sent me into the world to proclaim this salvation of sonship to all
men. And so send I you abroad to preach this salvation of sonship. Salvation
is the free gift of God, but those who are born of the spirit will immediately
begin to show forth the fruits of the spirit in loving service to their fellow
creatures. And the fruits of the divine spirit which are yielded in the lives
of spirit-born and God-knowing mortals are: loving service, unselfish devotion,
courageous loyalty, sincere fairness, enlightened honesty, undying hope, confiding
trust, merciful ministry, unfailing goodness, forgiving tolerance, and enduring
peace. If professed believers bear not these fruits of the divine spirit in
their lives, they are dead; the Spirit of Truth is not in them; they are useless
branches on the living vine, and they soon will be taken away. My Father requires
of the children of faith that they bear much spirit fruit. If, therefore,
you are not fruitful, he will dig about your roots and cut away your unfruitful
branches. Increasingly, must you yield the fruits of the spirit as you progress
heavenward in the kingdom of God. You may enter the kingdom as a child, but
the Father requires that you grow up, by grace, to the full stature of spiritual
adulthood. And when you go abroad to tell all nations the good news of this
gospel, I will go before you, and my Spirit of Truth shall abide in your hearts.
My peace I leave with you."

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And then the Master disappeared from their sight. The next day there went
out from Tyre those who carried this story to Sidon and even to Antioch and
Damascus. Jesus had been with these believers when he was in the flesh, and
they were quick to recognize him when he began to teach them. While his friends
could not readily recognize his morontia form when made visible, they were
never slow to identify his personality when he spoke to them.